Writing with Images

Not only will using the Media Arts motivate students to write, but they will also develop media literacy skills which will help them to become discerning media users!

Media Literacy

• Image Analyze (Media-Awareness Network)
• Shot Styles and Camera Practice

Royalty Free Step-by-Step Digital Camera Booklet (pdf) <http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/DMitchell/digital.cfm>

• Editing Techniques (iPhoto tutorial ) Lunapic Online photo editing

Free Media: Alan Levine's CogDogRoo wiki page on finding copyright free media http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryMedia

Descriptive Writing

• Impact of synonyms, creating word lists of descriptors for an image.
• Using thesaurus (free online visual thesaurus (**Visuwords**))
• Text - image relationship. How does the image support the message in the text. The text does not have to describe the image.
• Placing of text. Careful when placing text that it is not over top of someone's face, or blocks the main subject.
• Wordle. A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site. http://www.wordle.net/create

ComicLife

Tutorials & Templates: http://www.countrymeadows.district96.k12.il.us/Comic_Life_site/CLindex.html

For a further look into the realm of comic books:

• Comics in the Classroom! http://www.teachingcomics.org/
• Comics in Education http://www.humblecomics.com/comicsedu/
• Comics in Education Web Resources http://www.humblecomics.com/comicsedu/web.html
• Reading Online: New Literacies http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/jaal/11-02_column/
• National Association of Comics Art Educators http://www.teachingcomics.org/

Lesson Resources:

• Media-Awareness Canada: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/media_education/bc_curricular_overview.cfm
• TV & Me: http://www.cca-kids.ca/tvandme/english/educators/index.html
• PBS Teachers: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
• Apple Learning. Scroll down the page to Curriculum Resources http://www.apple.com/education/teachers-professors/resources/
• Adobe Digital Kids. Lesson ideas. http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/adsc/
• Assessing Media Projects: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/media_literacy/assess_media.cfm
• Media Lit. Lessons - 5 Key questions:

Media Resources:

• Jump Page of Media Literacy links: http://edselect.com/media.htm
• Media Literacy for the 21st Century (2nd ed.) booklet (87 page guide): www.medialit.org/pdf/mlk/01a_mlkorientation_rev2.pdf
• Media Education: Make it happen: http://www.mediaeducationweek.ca/101_download.htm

Items for Classroom:

Dove: Onslaught commercial (play using quietube) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epOg1nWJ4T8
Shot Examples:	shot_examples.pdf Details Download 493 KB
Shot Style (blank form)	Shot_style.pdf Details Download 31 KB
How to place text on to an image	wtg0nPhoto 2.pdf Details Download 102 KB